HiRISE | Light-Toned Materials on the Floor of Coprates Chasma (PSP_003513

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Light-Toned Materials on the Floor of Coprates Chasma
PSP_003513_1665 Science Theme: Geologic Contacts/Stratigraphy

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These enhanced-color views are part of the floor of Coprates Chasma in giant Valles Marineris. A single image area (only about 1.1 by 9 kilometers) shows a tremendous variety of rock types, as indicated by their colors and textures.

These areas include ancient (more than 3 billion year-old) fractured and faulted blocks of bedrock (mostly lighter-toned areas with a range of colors, plus some dark blue areas), overlain in places by younger sediments deposited by wind and water (smoother image areas).

The bedrock with warm colors (yellow to red) has been altered by water. It would be wonderful to land a rover here for surface exploration and perhaps return rock samples to study on Earth.

Written by: Alfred McEwen (4 January 2017)

Acquisition date
27 April 2007

Local Mars time
15:30

Latitude (centered)
-13.585°

Longitude (East)
300.109°

Spacecraft altitude
264.2 km (164.2 miles)

Original image scale range
from 26.6 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 53.2 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
8.1°

Phase angle
58.8°

Solar incidence angle
51°, with the Sun about 39° above the horizon

Solar longitude
226.8°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 352.7°

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map-projected   (723MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (461MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
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map-projected (368MB)
non-map           (288MB)

IRB color
map projected (167MB)
non-map           (351MB)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
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EDR products
HiView

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IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

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All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
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POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.